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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 10, 1872.
N V X B E R SO.
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Sheriff’s Sales, perjevyof ten liues, or less, 12 50
Mortgage li la sules, per square, 5 00
Citations lot Letters of Administration,. 3 00
Guardianship, 3 00
Application for dismission trout Administration, 3 00
‘ “ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 00
“ “ leave to sell Land, 5 uu
fur Homesteads......... 175
jfoticeto Debtors aud Creditors, 3 00
jj,,., ot Lund, Ac., per square,, 5 00
■ perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150
£,:™y Motives,30days, 3 Of)
purecioeure nt Mottguge, per sq., each time,.... 100
Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) 1 75
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales el Laqdi Ac-., by Administrators, Executors
or Guardians, ale requited bylaw to be held on the
• .t luus lay intlie mouth, between the hours of It
fa Hie loreiiuon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
j; i-i in tiie County in which the property is situated
Sutter uf these sales must be given in a public ga
i ts 1U days previous to the duy of sale.
Motives tor the sale of personal property must be
o sale
For the Federal Union.
Letter from Virginia.
Tie Wheat-harvest: abundant yield—Abingdon:
population—distinguished public men—Refinement
—Admirable Schools—Speech of a Congressman—
Scene of John H. Morgan a death—Fire in the
Mountains.
m in like manlier 10 days previous to eale day.
r to tlie debtoib and creditors of an estate
p B ,l i.~i> be pubiiMied *10 days.
“ \,.tict that application will be made to the Court ot
0' : ,:uiry lbi leave to well Land, &.C., must be publish
Lititr two moiitbaj
it!■>!!> f«»r letters of Administration, Guardianship.
jjiu>! be published 30 days—for dismission from
A i.imii.-tration monthly three mouths—for dismission
frt»m Guardianship, 40 days.
Kal-' t* r foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed inontidy fur lour months—for establishing lost pa
tor the lull space of three mouths—for compell
ing titles fiom Executors or Administrators, where
bund ha.- heeii given by the deceased, the full space oi
three months
Pab!i« ations will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, unlessotherwise ordered
Book .Hid Job Work, of all kinds,
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RAIL HOAD TIME TABLE.
Ar.ival aud Departure of Trains at Milledgeville.
MACON A. AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Bay Train.
P wn Train to Augusta arrives at Millcdgev., 8.17 a.m.
tp Train to Macon arrives at Milledgeville, 524 p.m.
Nijjlil Train.
Arrives from Augusta at 12:20 a m.
“ “ Maeon at 12:15 a m.
EATONTON & GORDON RAILROAD.
U’.' Train to Eatnuton arrives at Milledgev., 8.45 p. m-
DuvruTrain to Gordon arrives “ 2.35 p.m
Post Office Wotice.
Milludceville. Jan. 18, 1872.
F-iiti and after this date mails will close as follows :
Ma le fur Atlanta and Augusta and points beyond
p gnu lli and east, will close at 8o’clock A M.
Mails for Macon. Southwestern Road, and points
hnui,d, going south-west, will close at 5 P. M.
M ii s tor Savannah and Florida close at 2:15 P. M.
Man.- for Eatonu>n and M outicello closes at 8:45- P M.
Office hours from 7 A. M. until FL30 P. M.
•'She open on Sundays from 8 to 9 1-2 A. M.
lluLey Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M.
JOSIAS MARSHALL, P. M.
Church Directory.
BABTIST CHURCH.
Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11
•’clock a in and 7 p m.
Sabbath School at9 I-2o'clock, am. S N Boughton,
Supt, Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Honrs ot service on Sunday: 11 o'clock, am
tod 7 p m.
Sunday School 3 o'clock p m.—W E Fiankland,
Superinicndeiit.
Friends of the Sabbath School are invited to visit it
N s MiesinDaiy Society, monthly, 4Hi Sunday at 2 p m
Prayer meeting every Wednesday 7 o’clock p m-
liev A J JARRELL, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath (except the 2d in each mo)
•t j 1 o'clock a m. and 7 p in-
Sabbath School at 9 1-2 a m. TT Windsor, Snpt.
Player meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m.
Rev C W LANE, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Without a Pastor at preseut.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a m.
Lodges.
I. O. G. T.
Milledgeville I.odge No 115 meets in the Senate
Chamber hi the State House on every Friday even
ing a! 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, W C T.
E P Lane, -Sec’y.
Cut ! Water Templars meet at the State House eve-
y Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
MASONIC.
Benevolent I.odge No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d
Sn inlay mghis ot each month at Masonic Hall,
ti D Case, Sec y. 1. U. HOWARD, W. M.
Temple Chapter meets the second ana fourth Sat
urday nights in each month.
a B Cam,, Sec’y. S G WHITE, H P.
Milledgeville I.odge of Perfection A.'.fc A.*.
“■ It.-, meets every .Monday night
SAM.L G WHITE,TV.P. - G.’.M.’.
Geo. D.^Case, Exe Grand Sec’y.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Walker.
Hoard of Aldermen.—I. F B Mnpp; 2 E Trice;
" T A Caraker; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J H McCornb;
' Henry Temples.
Cierk and '1 reasurer—Peter Fair.
Marshal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
Deputy Marshal and Street Overeeer—Peter Ferrell.
Sexton—F Beeland *■ '
City Surveyor—C T Bayne.
City Auctioneer—S J Kidd.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples. Mapp-
St eet “ J Cataker, Trice, McCornb
Land “ McGomb, ,J Caraker, Trice.
Cemetery “ Temples, Mapp, T A Caraker.
Hoard meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each
tnonth.
. r v v ivik. ouji i cuuu
/ p L,**'/Arnold. Sheriff,
"icr. Dup ty Sheriff,
UuV# Marshall Kuo’r Tax R
COUNTY OFFICERS.
M. R. Bell, Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall.
Gb^jfVr, Clerk Sup’r Court,
1 A* ■ Arnold. Sheriff.
lives in the country,
Returns—at PostOffioe.
1 Callaway, Tux Collector, office at his store.
J * Temples. County Tieasurer, office at his store.
l»uae Cushing, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st.
John Gentry, Constable, residence ou Wayue st, near
the Factoi y.
MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA.
Dr. G. I) Case Dean. Dr. S. G. WHITE, Pres’dt
Regular meeting first Monday in December.
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Dr THOS V GREEN, Superintendent.
“ R Bell, Tr. &. Steward.
Abingdon, Va., June 27, 1S72.
The wheat harvest is on hand here
now. The yield is very good, but is
not so fine as in East Tennessee.
There, the fields as we came hither a
lew days since, exhibited evidences of
a very large crop. The wheat standing
in “ shocks” thickly studded over the
wide fields, having been reaped only a
few days. The business of reaping is
now almost exclusively done by im
proved machinery. Indeed the pro
gress of agricultural improvement
in this country is in nothing more ap
parent than the general adoption of
the latest and best labor-saving ma
chinery.
We are pleased to see Abingdon
quite recovered from her war-injury ;
several excellent buildings—among
them the Court House—having been
destroyed by fire by the Yankee forces
in 1S64. It is a very handsome town
of 1200 or 1500 inhabitants, situated
on the Virginia and Tennessee Rail
road 15 miles from the Tennessee bor
der at Bristol. It has long been the
centre of refinement, intelligence and
wealth in South-western Virginia.
Many of the most distinguished citi
zens of Virginia had their homes here,
and names known beyond the limits
of the United States are a portion of
its historical treasures. The late Gen.
John B. Floyd—a relative of the Floyd
family of the Georgia sea-coast—re
sided at this place, and died here.—
Virginia's most popular and distin
guished Senator in the U. S. Congress,
Hon. John W. Johnston, brother-in-
aw of the late Gen. John B. Floyd,
and a nephew of Gen, Joseph E. John
ston, resides in this neighborhood ; and
here is to be found Mr. Beverly John
ston, a brother of Gen. Joseph E.,
who has long stood at the head of the
brilliant Abingdon bar. The late Hon.
C. Preston of S. C., was a native of
Abingdon. Here, too, was born and
died ere the noon-day of his life, the
late Col. James W. Humes, one of the
most brilliant of the young statesmen
Virginia ever produced. His canvass
of Virginia in the last gubernatorial
contest gave him the highest rank
among her statesmen. His widow, a
daughter of the late Gen. Charles R.
Floyd of Camden county, Georgia,
and a sister of “Mary Faith Floyd” of
of your city, resides here. The un
timely death of Col. Humes reminds
us of another of Abingdon’s brilliant
sons—the late Walter Preston—an
orator of unsurpassed powers, whose
widow, beautiful and accomplished,
also resides in this neighborhood. We
could easily multiply honored names
ian, and having succeeded Stonewall
Jarkson in his Brigade command when
the latter became a General. He is a
candidate for re-election.
Coming hither from Knoxville,
Tenn., we passed Greenville, Tenn
the home of Andrew Johnson. He
a candidate for a seat in the Repre
sentative Branch of Congress under
the new law authorizing the election
of a member for the State at large.—
He is opposed by Gen. Frank B
Cheatham of Nashville, the well known
and gallant General in the Confeder
ate service. The contest is not yet
fairly opened, aud we cannot predict
results. The former has the advan
tage in statesmanship—the latter
generalship. Which is the better now
in the U. S. Congress ?
Passing Greeneville, we saw the an
tique brick Williams’ mansion, with
its old fashioned tin-roof, in which
the great raider, Gen. John H. Mor
san, was surprised and slain by the
Federal forces. The mountain scene
ry at this point, lying to the South
ward from Greenville to the Virginia
line, is unfolded in such marvelous
beauty as to chain the beholder’s at
tention. Along the towering moun
tain-cliffs for 20 miles stretched an ir
regular line of umber contrasting
grandly with the deep greenish-blue
al that distant earth and sky. A fire
had spread from a single spark in
April last, and whole forests had been
swept away. W. G. M.
THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS.
In practice the tourist bound to Cal
ifornia will do well to stop two days in
Chicago, and one day in Salt Lake City,
in which case he would get to San
Francisco in ten days, and with sur
prisingly little fatigue, aud he will
have seeu several very remarkable
sights on the way. For instance,
though Chicago itself was burned and
is not rebuilt, the ruin is worth seeing ;
and near at hand, accessible by fre
quent trains, he may find one of the
most characteristic sights of our con
tinent, thegreat Chicago stock-yards—
a city whose inhabitants are cattle,
sheep, and hogs, and where these crea
tures are so well cared for that many
a poor human being supposed to have
an immortal and amendable soul, liv
ing in a New York tenement house, is
neither so cleanly lodged uor so well
protected against harm or cruelty.
This city of the beasts has streets,
sewers, drains; it has water laid on;
it is lighted with gas ; it has a bank, an
exchange, a telegraph office, a poet of
fice, an admirably kept hotel; it has
even a newspaper—else it would not
be an American city. It has very
comfortable accommodations for 119,-
550 residents—namely, 20,000 head of
cattle, 75,000 hogs, 22,000 sheep, with
stalls for 350 horses. It contains 345
acres of land; and when all this is
prepared for use, 210.000 head of cat
tle can be lodged, fed, and cared for
there at once, and with the certainty
that not one will softer or go astray.
It has thirty-five miles of sewers;
ten miles of streets and alleys, all paved
with wood; three miles of water-
troughs, all so arranged that the water
may be stopped off at any point; 2300
gates, which are the front doors, so to
speak, ot the place ; 1500 pens, heav
ily fenced in with double plank; 100
of the living, and the dead ; but your acres are covered with pens for cattle,
readers at Milledgeville will not feel an< ^ these are floored with three-
the same interest in the subject as we
do here.
Abingdon remains, even since the
depressing and impoverishing results
of the War, quite a centre of refine
ment and intelligence; indeed I may
add of wealth, also. Permeating its
inch plank ; 800 covered sheds for
sheep and hogs; and seventen miles
of railroad track connect this city of
the beasts with every road which runs
into Chicago. It has two Artesian
wells, one 1032, the other 1190 feet
deep, which, being spouting wells,
send the water into huge tanks forty-
five feet high, whence it is distributed
society is a good old-fashioned healthy j a || over the place in pipes. Fourteen
tone of morality and religion. Not, fire-plugs are ready to furnish water in
even the wide-spread fashion epidemic ' case of fire ; immense stacks of hay and
known as “Dolly Vardens” seems to ~
will see the need for such elaborate
arrangements as I have described, and
if you are a human person, will be
pleased that these immense droves of
animals are kindly cared for and com
fortably lodged and fed on their way
to a market. Most of the people em
ployed in the yards are Americans.
Among such a multitude of beasts
as are here received Mr. Buckle’s law
of averages would tell you that there
will be a certain few monstrosities
and you will probably be shown one
or two Texas steers which look much
more like elephants or mammoths,
than horned oxen; perhaps a two-
headed sheep, or a six-legged hog; and
indeed, when I saw the stables they
contained a reflection which would
have turned the face of a Chatham
street exhibitor green with envy.—
Chas. Nordojf in Harper’s Magazine.
' FIRE DEPARTMENT.
D p Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief.
Tl 'e M & M Kin? Co. meets at the Court Room ou
Re first and third Tuesday nights iu each month.
PLANTERS’ HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GA.
JeVcraph office and Railroad Ticket office connec-
will, the Hotel.
c JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Proprietor.
“ept 25, 1871 9 tf
con jsr.
A CAR LOAD OF CORN JUST RECEIVED
and lor sale VERY CHEAP by
MOORE it McCOOK.
have assailed seriously the elegant
leaders whom we have seen here; and
we venture to predict that the ticket
of Woodhull and Douglass will not
get here a single vote in the approach
ing presidential election. Speaking
of the latter reminds us that the De
mocracy here, and in Eastern Tennes
see, seem quite cordial in their wil
lingness to support the Greeley tick
et : and T judge frr»m this morning’"
telegraphic report of your State Con
vention’s proceedings in Atlanta on
yesterday, that Georgia will do like
wise,
Abingdon is noted for the excellence
and number of her schools. The
Methodists, Presbyterians and Catho
lics have each flourishing female
schools of superior character ; and the
Male Academy is in a very prosperous
condition. Near this place is located
the celebrated Emory and Henry Col
lege, under the patronage of the South
ern Methodist Episcopal Church,
which educates students from almost
every State in the South.
We bad the pleasure of hearing at
this place last Monday, the address of
Hon. Mr. Terry, Representative of this
District in the U. S. Congress. .It
was an account of his stewardship
rendered to his constituents—a bold
manly exposition of his.conduct, re
minding us, in some of its passages, of
Edmund Burke’s celebrated and elo
quent Address to the electors of Bris
tol. In referring to the “ McIntyre
Amendment,” Gen. Terry paid an
eloquent tribute to the merits of the
Hon. Mr. McIntyre, our able Con
gressman from Southern Georgia.-—
Gen. Terry must not be confounded
with the Federal General of that name:
our Gen. Terry being a native Virgin-
large granaries of corn contain the
food needed for the beasts; and, I be
lieve, a train of palace cars now bears
the emigrant animals from this their
city comfortably to the Eastern butch
ers.
Of course, as the “ lower animals”
do not help themselves, a considerable
force of men is needed to attend upon
those gathered here. The company
receives and cares for all animals sent
to it. It has thus taken in, penned,
fed, watered, littered, and taken ac-
f-mint of 4.1.000 Logo, 0009 ^itL, ..A
200 sheep in a single day, and that
without accident, hitch, or delay.—
From 175 to 200 men are constantly
employed in this labor; and to occom-
niodate these and their families numer
ous cottages have been built, while a
town hall lor public meetings and lec
tures, a church, a Sunday-school, and
a well-kept day school provide for
their instruction and amusement. The
hotel, has bath-rooms, and is in
other respects well fitted, for the use
of the drovers and owners of cattle,
whom business brings hither. At the
Exchange sales are effected, and the
news of a sale may be sent to Maine
or Texas by a telegraph from the same
room, while the money paid may be
securely deposited in the bank, which
is under the same roof. Thus you will
see that this surprising enterprise is
completely furnished in every part;
and it will not be the least part of
your surprise and pleasure to find that
this whole business, which about New
York often involves painful brutali
ties, is here conducted as quietly as
though a Quaker presided over it, and
with as much care for the feelings of
the dumb brutes as though good Mr.
Bergh were looking on all the time.
It will cost about two millions when
it is completed ; it is a pecuniary suc
cess, as it deserves to be; and when
you hear that so long ago as 1S69
Chicago received and sent off 403,102
head of cattle, 1.G6I.S69 bogs, and
340,072 sheep, and that it will proba
bly remain for years one of the great
est cattle markets in the world, you
From the New York Herald.
The Cycles of Cholera and Sun Spots.
One of the most remarkable deduc
tions of modern science has recently
been made in England, in regard to
the long-supposed connection between
the cholera and sun spots. The in
tense interest now felt everywhere as
to the origin, movements and present
march of the great Asiatic plague,
nvests the subject with more than or-
Jinary importance. The phenomenon
of solar spots has long since been con
nected with the wonderful auroral dis
plays, magnetic storms and other
physical changes which so often
bewilder and amaze the most emi
nent philosophers of the day. On the
1st of September, 1859, the face ol
the sun was obscured by such spots,
and two observers, far separated and
unknown to each other, while viewing
them with powerful telescopes, simul
taneously saw a strikingly dazzling
ight burst forth near one of the spots
and sweep across it, traversing in a
few minutes thirty-five thousand miles
of the solar surface. A magnetic storm
at the same time was in violent pro
gress? The whole planet seemed elec-
rically convulsed on that day; and
gradually telegrams annnounced mag
nificent auroras in Europe, in the
West Indies, on the tropics, within
eighteen degrees of the Equator
(where they are very rare) in Boutli
America, aud even at Melbournej in
Australia. In many places the tele
graph wires ceased to work, and at
some of our chief cities the electricians
received severe shocks. The magni
tude of solar spots, which astronomers
believe to stand casually connected
with such convulsions, is almost in
credible. Instances are frequent of
spots covering eight millions of square
miles on the sun’s disc ; and there are
exceptional ones, as that seen by Her-
schel in 1S37, more than thirty times
large. It is, therefore, not to be
ondered at, as the distinguished au
thority whom we have jnst quoted
suggested that the spotted state of the
grand luminary is intimately connect
ed with a great variety of meteorolo-
gic, terestial and other phenomena.
The new and striking deduction to
w’hich we referred at the outset ema
nates from Mr. B. G. Jenkins, of the
Inner Temple, London, in a paper
(read before the Historical Society) on
cholera, founded on a communication
to the Russian Imperial Academy of
Science, and now under a review by
the Medical Council. The author of
the paper emphatically maintains and
strongly supports the view that cos
mic influence lies at the origin of
cholera, and that the great epidemic
intimately connected with auroral
displays and solar disturbances, and
graphically illustrated the connection
upon a map giving the amount: of chol
era and the number of sun spots for
the past fifty years. Following out
this idea, he proves, by the annals of
the disease, that its maxima and ruini-
coiocide with the maxima and
supposition that they were sailing in
these cholera streams. At any rate it
is pretty clear that the places hitherto
exempt from the infection lie outside
the limits of such streams as Mr. Jen
kins described. The whole subject is
worthy the practical and most exnaust
ive investigation of scientific men
What the world wants is to put this
whole research upon the solid basis of
fact, and this has been done by the au
thor of the view above cited.
minima of solar agitations, auroras,
banners, earth currents, magnetic
storms and electrical cyclones. It
is a well known and curious fact
that the last year of every century—
e g.j 1800—has a minimum of spots,
and, by various processes, different
physicists in distant countries, work
ing from phofographic and other sun
records, have reached the same re
sult, that the period of time in which
this minimum returns is about eleven
years and a half. But the maximum
yrai Jails aliuub UVe years aner Lite
minimum, and not midway in the pe
riod. The author of the hypothesis
conclud-s that the cholera period is
about equal to a period aud a half of
sun spots; and thus reckoning, his de
duction is verified as far ae cholera
statistics are known. According to
this reasoning 1866 was a year having
a maximum of the disease, and the
next minimum will be in 1833—a con
clusion which will, be welcomed by
those who have apprebeuded its visi
tation in its worst forms this year in
our own country.
Contrary to the usual notion Mr.
Jenkins projects the idea that the
“ home” of cholera is not confined to
Asia or the delta of the Ganges, and
that it originates in seven distiuct and
equi-disrant seats, on or near the trop
ics, of which the Gangetic is the most
important. The others are on the east
of China, to the north of Mecca, on
the west coast of Africa, to the north
of the West Indies, to the west ol
Lower California and among the Sand
wich Islands; and his map shows that
the recorded appearances of the epi
demic on our globe may be satisfactor
ily explained by supposing seven at
mospheric streams, each fourteen hun
dred miles in breadth, proceeding from
these foci in a northwestardly direc
tion. The curious but not unlrequent
cases of vessels being suddenly struck
by cholera while at sea and tbe in
stances of ships sailing along tbe coasts
of India being attacked by tbe disease
in the same place, at different times,
seems to be explicable only upon the
Sheep Better Than Dogs.—The
wool clip of the United States in 1871
amounted to 177,000,000 pounds
A comparison with other wool-produc
ing countries gives the following sta
tistics : England clips 159,969,000 lbs
Austria 152,500,000, LaPlata 12S.070,-
000. It is thus seen that this country
has risen to be the first on the list. In
1800 the production wtta 60,364,913
pounds in all the States and Territo
ries, and the increase iu 1871 thus ap
pears to have reached nearly thirty per
cent. But you may look in vaiu for
any gratifying returns of this State.
We have the finest lands on the conti
uent for sheep walks, and might add
large sums to our total values at the
end of each year by means of wool
for spinners, and mutton for butchers;
but we do not. And why not? Let
the “State Journal” answer:
Last Saturday we went to our farm
on the Potomac to spend a quiet Sun
day. We were aroused at daybreak
by the yelping of dogs near the house,
aud reached the door just in time to
see our favorite and most valuable
buck, the leader of the flock, driven
past by a pa~k of curs. All hands
were aroused, and seizing their guns
followed to save the poor brute from
his pursuers. We found him corner
ed, but doing his best to fight his as
sailants. One ear was torn off, and
his legs badly bitten.
Taking the back track, we spent
the whole day hunting up the scatter
ed flock and caring lor the dead and
wounded. Three lambs and two ewes
were found horribly mangled and torn,
one of them the pet of our children
Others were bitten, disfigured and
lamed. We confess to some feelings
not altogether appropriate for Sunday.
These few sheep are all that remain to
us of a large flocl^ which we sold to
save from the dogs, after they had
killed many. But the children pled
for a few sheep, and so we kept a
small flock near the house. But even
in our own yard, we have no immuni
ty. These dogs belong to people ut
terly irresponsible. They run at large
and are under no restraint.
The experience here narrated is com
mon all through the State; but the
“Journal” should remember that the
man and brother is the great dog fan
cier of the State. Let us have a sacred
war against the curs that infest the
land, and we will aid in it to the best
of our ability. Verily, one sheep is
worth many dogs, and if we impress
this on the next General Assembly we
shall not be wanting in our efforts.—
Norjolk Virginian.
{From tbe Baltimore Gazette.
Bow to Wim Success.
It is impossible to dwell with too
much earnestness upon the importance
of thorough and complete union in the
Democratic ranks. There never was
a time in the history of our party when
more self abnegation was demanded
—when a greater amount of personal
sacrifice was needed to secure the de
feat of our reckles aud unscrupulous
opponents. That the political situa
tion is full of peril no one can doubt,
that serious apprehensions for the fu
ture are entertained by some of our
best and wisest stetesmen, is a fact that
calls for the most prudent action, not
only on the leaders, but also among
the entire rank and file of tbe party.
That the large majority of the Democ
racy will unhesitatingly obey the de
cision of the Democratic National Con
vention, whatever ito voice niav be,
is unquestionably true; but there are
some who, at this time, openly an
nounce their intentions not to be bound
by its action, unless the decree regis
tered by that body shall be in stirct
accordance with their own views and
opinions. This is as unwise as it is
in politic. Men who permit them
selves to be thus madly carried away ! not been transmuted into net profits ;
by the passions and prejudices of the and yet such communities, daily in-
hour, in.y fiud, when it is too late, flicting irreparable injury upon thein-
ttiat they have unwittingly aided in selves, by neglecting the gifts ol God
the perpetuation of the worst Admis- 1 and spurning the labor of man, are
tration that ever cursed any couptry. ; wopt to deem themselves injured by
It should therelore, be the daily duty the piosperity flowing from superior
of every Democrat to ujge upon his industry and a practical political ocon-
brethren the vast importance of union, omy.”
irmony and conciliation, iu the ut- ! Horace Capron.
most degree, and to counsel every one
within his reach to look with entire
confidence to the Democratic National
certain processes of manufacture ;—
wheat must be threshed, corn shelled,
hops carefully kiln dried ; so with
many other crops ; indeed, the farm
er must necessarily be a manufacturer.
High farming is always and only
found in connection with manufactur
ing skill in extending the raw pro
ducts of agiiculture ; and no purely
agricultural nation can expect to at
tain wealth, a high state of civiliza
tion, or great political power. These
are facts which should be carefully
pondered and promptly acted upon.
Why is not the South to-day the
great manufacturing section of the
country ? It is far better adapted to
such an industry than any other sec
tion. The answer may be found in a
paragraph from a former official state
ment emanating from the Department
of Agriculture relating to this section :
“The path of progress has been
equally open to all ; laws supposed to
favor a diversified industry have been
applicable to ail States alike ; the best
water power and cheapest coal are in
States that make no extensive use of
either ; milder climates, and superior
facilities for cheap transportation
have furnished advantages that have
A Good Word for Romping Girls.
—Most women have a dread of these.
Mothers would rather their little
Convention as the only recognized ; , , . ,, , . .
oartv whose he- i daughters were called_ anything than
1 romps. They say to them, “ be very
! quiet now, dears—don’t run or jump,
: try and be little ladies ” As if a
: healthy child could be still; as if it
| could take time to walk or step over
representative of the party whose be
hests should be heard and obeyed.
The only hope of the Radicals is in
the dissentions of the Democracy. By
divison of our ranks they expect to
conquer. They will use every effort j . , ... ... . - , .
? A , , i wnat came in its way ; as if it could
foment discord in our midst, and , .... ..... , , . , ,
1 hold its little hands in its lap, when its
little heart is so brimful of tickle. It
isabsuid when she comes in and puts
her basket on the table, to look rueful
ly at the rent in the new gingham
apron, and the little bare toes sticking
to
when they accomplish their work they
will laugh at our calamity and mock
when our fear comes. In two weeks
more the National Convention will
assemble at Baltimore. It promises
to be the largest and most intelligent
meeting of the freemen that ever as
sembled in the Union. Thousands
from all quarters of the Republic
will gather here to join in this grand
demonstration against the corrupt fac
tion now in power. In fact, as well as
in name, let it be the oracle of the
great Democratic party. By that sign
vve will conquer; but in no other way
can we hope for success. The prize
is within our grasp. If we fail to se
cure it, it is only because we neglect
ed to profit by the teaching of all time
that in union is strength and without
•it the best and holiest cause may be
lost.
Summer Drinks.—Ice water should
be drank but sparingly. A most ex
cellent substitute for it is pounded ice
taken in small lumps into the mouth
and allowed to dissolve upon the ton
gue, This will prove very refreshing
and much more enduring in its effects.
Lemonade is a simple and grateful
beverage. To make it: Roll the lem
ons on something hard till they be
come soft; grate oft the rinds, cut the
lemons in slices and squeeze them
in a pitcher (a new clothes-pin will
answer for a squeezer in lieu of some
thing better); pour on the required
quantity of water, and sweeten accord
ing to taste. The grated rinds, for
the sake of their aroma, should be ad
ded too. After mixing thoroughly,
set the pitcher aside for half an hour ;
then strain the liquor through a jelly
strainer, and put in the ice.
Travellers who find it inconvenient
to use lemons can carry a box of lem
on sugar prepared lrorn citric acid and
sugar, a little of which in a glass of
ice v^ater will furnish quite a refresh
ing drink, aud one that will help oft-
eutimes to avert sick-headache and
biliousness. Citric acid is obtained
from the juice of lemons and limes.
Perry is a delicious beverage made
from cherries, and will keep a year or
more. laKe six pouuus ur kIivum
and bruise them ; pour on a pint and a
half of hot water, and boil tor fifteen
minutes; strain through a flannel bag,
and add three pounds of sugar. Boil
lor half an hour more, or until the
liquid will sink to the bottom of a cup
of water (try it with a tea-spoor.ful ot
the liquid); then turn into jelly cups
and cover with the paper dipped in
the white of an egg.
To prepare the drink : Put a spoon
ful of the jelly into a goblet of water,
and let it stand about ten minutes;
then stir it up and fill with pounded
ice. Currants and raspberries made
into “shrub” furnish a pleasant and
cooling drink when mixed with ice
water. Pounded ice is also au agree
able addition to a saucer of strawber
ries, raspberries, or currants. Pound
it until it is almost as fine as snow,
and spread it over the berries. With
fruit it is also an excellent substitute
for cream. Water ices are always ac
ceptable. Those made of lemon, or
ange, currants, strawberries, raspber
ries, and pine-apple, are much im
proved by adding the stiff beaten
whites of four eggs to every two
quarts of the liquid. Put it in just
as it is turned into the freezer, and it
will freeze in a foam.
[From the Washington Patriot.
Grant Badly Ratified.
Ever since the Philadelphia Conven
tion the loyal Iriends of the President
in this city have been preparing for a
grand ratification meeting, which we
are told, was to surpass all former
demostrations, and to be the signal for
similar displays throughout the coun
try. They had as a foundation five
or six thousand office holders, of all
degrees, and an equal number of con
tractors and laborers in the employ of
the Board of Public Works, to say
nothing of the thousand or more em
ployees attached to the district gov
ernment. In order to make- the ar
rangements more complete, and to
out of the last pair of shoes. Wash
oft her hot face and soiled hands, and
give her a bowl of cool milk and light
bread, and when she has eaten her till
and got rested, make her sit down be
side you, and tell you what she has
seen off in those meadows and woods.
Her heart will be full of beautiful
things—the sound of the wind, the
talk of the leaves, the music of the
wild birds and the laugh of the wild
flowers, the rippling of streams and
thp. color of pebbles, the shade of the
clouds, and the hue of the sun-beams
—all those will have woven their spell
over her innocent thoughts, and made
her a poet in feeling if not in expres
sion.
No, mothers, don’t nurse up your
little girls like house plants. The
daughters of this generation are to be
the mothers of the next, and if you
would have them healthy in body and
genial in temper, free from nervous af
fections, fidgets, and blues; if you
would fit them for life, its joys, its
cares and trials, let them have a good
romp every day while they are grow
ing. It is nature’s own specific, and if
taken in season, warranted to cure all
the ills of the girl and the woman.
Bacon on Time.—Everything now
adays is “on time, to planters,” ex-
except that the planters themselves
are sadly behind time! Witn the ad-
augment the effect, this meeting was 1 vertisements of our daily papers as a
postponed from the time original- | g U id e , it appears that about the first of
ly fixed, and came off last night.; present month, there were nearly
Large expenditures, illumination, mu- two m iUions pounds of Bacon for sale
sic, decorations, fireworks, and all the ; j 0 c j£y alone—nearly one thous-
accessories likely to attract the idle, ! an d tons—aud a large portion of it
curious and indifferent were used. ! advertised for sale “on time.” Bacon
The meeting was called to order an j 8 cheap enough to live on, and has
hour after the appointed time, and al- b een f or a y ear . Bacon “-on time,”
though salvos of conuon bad summon- ! j 8 f ar dearer, since commission for ad-
ed the faithful, the expectod thou-j vanc i n g j a cceptance, dealers’ profits,
sands failed to put in an appearance. ( interest, and percentage for risk are
As a ratification it was a complete , a u to be added to the present cash
failure in every sense. Of the long cat-; va j ue< The planter who falls a prey
alogue ot speakers, Senator Nye was to these charges will find it dear living,
the only “bright particular star” who j y e t the poor planter must not starve
condescended to shine on the motley to avoid dear living; and what can he
crowd of black spirits and white, do but buy “on time,” when he has
From the first to the last there was no ca8 h t an d no meat at home ?
not a sparkle of enthusiasm or gener- q>h e ma tter becomes serious. The
ous greeting. The whole affair was majority say they cannot raise hogs at
o.m*, n.v/1-j, —J r «*«*«-“i iijn/ugiiuui. j Home, on account of thieves, or chol-
There was no heart in it. eraj or SO me other cause. Yet we do
If, after snch extraordinary efforts, k now there are many planters who do
and with all the appliances of official: ra j se meat at home in abundance.—
zeal to secure success, this has been There are one or two at least, or more,
the result here in Washington, right j n e y e j-y county in Georgia, who are
under the eyes of the Administration, • th U8 successful and thrifty, this is
what must
elsewhere ?
dently see the handwriting on the wall.
A Hint to Parents.—Do all in your
power to teach your children self-gov
ernment. If a child is passionate,
teach him by patient and gentle means
to curb his temper; if he is greedy,
cultivate liberality in him ; if he is self
ish, promote generosity.
be the state of opinion en0U gh evidence to prove that the
The office-holders evi- thing is possible, and that our people
need not send to the West for Bacon
“ on time,” unless they wilfully neg-
!ti an it fac turk your own cotton. j e( ,j qheir own resources. No doubt
If England, by the magic of labor, i jt is necessary to use more care and
can make a dollar’s worth of your cot- j pains in hog raising than before the
tou produce two dollars, and if France, ; war, to save our Bacon from Radical
by still more delicate manipulation, , thieves. And it is certainly necessaiy
can make it yield three, why should j that we raise our corn, which may be
not your people, with willing hands | done if enough of it is planted and
to work, and abundant water and fuel i worked. Potatoes, peanuts, and arti-
for power, manufacture a large por-| chokes are valuable helps in making
tion of your crops at least into yarns pork, and all these may be had with
coarse fabrics ? and thus add to the ease if only the necessary work be
annual valu of your industries a bun- done. Surely this great question of
dred millions more. Thus you may J the meat supply ior the South needs
save freight, storage, commissions, the , a ttention. It has been neglected and
profit ot manufacture, and build up lo-.j overlooked, and needs now to be re-
cal markets to consume more of the j vived. The millions we send West to
edible products of your agriculture. | pay for meat can be saved at home at
Manufacture is allied to agriculture, j a far less cost, if our own people will
while commerce is an expensive non- I make it a part of their business to do so.
productive go-between. There are
few interests of agriculture which do
not involve manufacture. In dairy
farming, milk is sold with no aid of
manufacture, except as it is “exten
ded” by aid of the pump, but cbeese
and butter are tbe products of manu
facture, which last year yielded the
value of two hundred and forty-six
millions of dollars. Flax and hemp
can only reach the market through
[Banner of the South.
Tattling.—Never repeat a story
unless you are certain it is correct, and
not even then unless something is to
be gained, either of interest to your
self or for the good of the person con
cerned. Tattling i* a mean and wick
ed practice, and be who indulges in it
grows more fond of it in proportion ag
he is successf uL
